22 Jan
2018
22 Jan
'18
6:31 p.m.
Re: [TUHS] Kernel Sizes
I've often thought that LSX was V5
'regressed' to the concepts of
V1, which was facing similar hardware constraints. Is that a
reasonable view?
LSX has a maximum of three processes that are swapped
in and out in a stack-like fashion. Only one process is ever in core.
Is that how V1 was organized?
The rocess limit was higher in V1. And V1 was a time-sharing
system; for which LIFO swapping is inappropriate. So LSX
seems to have "regressed" to some pre-Unix state.
doug